This is the cover of my latest book. You can read about it at No Boundaries: Transnational Latino Gangs and America Law Enforcement (University of Michigan Press: 2009). You can also listen to a podcast about transnational Latino gangs here. (Transcript is also available at the same location.)
A very nice article about the book, the problem, and the men and women involved written by Charles Donelan for the Santa Barbara Independent is here.
Order the book from University of Michigan Press or from Amazon.com here.
If you prefer, you can read the table of contents and an excerpt from No Boundaries at the Barnes & Noble site here.
Read a Dallas News review here, and an article in La Opinion (Spanish) here.
Before Post-Racial Politics, There Was Racial Politics
Got a Kindle? You do? Swell! You can read my (as Greg Diaz) Washington pot-boiler novel 1980 Something: A Currency of Anger, published ONLY on Kindle (by me) and available here. It’s got violent crime, lurid sex, jaded ink-stained wrenches of journalism, wry humor, and racial politics of the nitty-gritty kind that existed before the post-racial political era. A real bonfire of the inanities.
I’m glad to see something being done about the gang problem in the US as well as the globe. We had a huge gang problem here in Winchester Va. They were predatorial in their drug dealing behaviors. My girlfriend at the time got a 2 year degree and started making 50k a year within months while I was working in DC they had her hooked on cocaine. It is quite common for them to recruit new users as well as the same old junkies. It ruined my life and I still haven’t got it back together yet. I went on a personal spec ops mission to figure out where the narcotics were coming from. I developed information over a year and passed it on to the right people. Operation boomerang blew those bastards right out here. They screwed with the wrong gringo. 30 plus members convicted and sent to prison. The leader used to meet a person next door. How ignorant can these gangs be? Very! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to cleaning up my community. It was worth it and I would help again anyday.